South Eastern Europe after EU Enlargement and before Accession

PLANNED PROGRAMME

4 April, 2005, Monday

9.00-10.30: Opening of the conference, guest speeches

•  Pavret de la Rochefordiere Deputy head, Economic policy related to enlargement (ECFIN-D-1)
•  Tibor Szanyi Political State Secretary, (Ministry of Economy and Transport, Hungary)
•  Kálmán Mizsei (Director, UNDP)

10.30-11.00: Coffee break

11.00-13.00. Macroeconomic Difficulties and Challenges for Policy Makers in South-Eastern Europe

•  Lajos Bokros professor (CEU, Budapest)
•  Boris Vujcic vice president (National Bank of Croatia, Zagreb)
•  Daniel Daianu director (CEPD, Bucharest)
•  Ben Slay senior economist (UNDP, Bratislava)
•  Dubravko Mihajlek senior economist (BIS, Geneva)
•  Vladimir Gligorov leading researcher (WIIW, Vienna)

13.00-14.00: Lunch

14.00-16.00: Liberalization, Integration and Foreign Trade of the Region

•  Bernard Funck senior economist (World Bank, Washington)
•  Bernard Snoy senior economist (Stability Pact, Brussels)
•  Stanchev Krassen director (IME, Sofia)
•  Dragoljub Stojanov professor (University of Sarajevo)

19.00: Reception, Dinner

5 April, 2005. Tuesday

9.00-11.30: Privatization, Capital Flows, Competitiveness and Productivity in the Region

•  Gábor Hunya, senior researcher (WIIW, Vienna)
•  Jelena Galic, director (Institute of Economics, Belgrade)
•  Katarina Ott, director (Institute of Public Finance, Zagreb)
•  Fikret Cauševic, director (University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo)
•  Magdolna Sass, researcher, ICEG European Center
•  Pál Gáspár director, ICEG European Center

11.30-11.45: Coffee break

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